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- Embodiments of the invention relate generally to the field of computing, and more particularly, to methods and systems for implementing data counter measures for online publishers with third party content.
- Online publishers often include third party content on their web pages. These third parties provide services that include, but are not limited to: analytics, advertising, widgets that add functionality for end users, and behavioral tracking. These third party services typically are provided at least in part by embedding onto a first party publisher's web pages a snippet of third party HTML and JavaScript code.
- This HTML and JavaScript code once executed, performs the functionality that the publisher originally intended, but may also bring in requests, such as data collection requests, that were not authorized by the publisher, such as requests by and/or on behalf of unwanted third parties.
- data collection requests can be in the form of images (most common), scripts, or iframes—theoretically any tag that creates an HTTP transaction.
- a first party publisher's web page for example, an Autos site that is used by consumers to compare car prices
- writePixel.js in the above example may contain something like the following:
- an authorized third party (“3rdparty”) has included on the publisher's page a tag that results in a call not authorized by the publisher being made out to a site associated with an unauthorized third party (“blacklisted”), which in this example results in user data being passed to the unauthorized third party, for example cookie data stored on the user's computer.
- blacklisted an unauthorized third party
- the third party (“blacklisted.com”) is now able to track that user as one being in-market for high-end luxury cars.
- FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system to block unauthorized third party calls.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a web page in which a control tag has been embedded to block unauthorized third party calls.
- FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to configure a publisher's web pages to cause unauthorized third party calls to be blocked.
- FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls.
- the invention can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a process; an apparatus; a system; a composition of matter; a computer program product embodied on a computer readable storage medium; and/or a processor, such as a processor configured to execute instructions stored on and/or provided by a memory coupled to the processor.
- these implementations, or any other form that the invention may take, may be referred to as techniques.
- the order of the steps of disclosed processes may be altered within the scope of the invention.
- a component such as a processor or a memory described as being configured to perform a task may be implemented as a general component that is temporarily configured to perform the task at a given time or a specific component that is manufactured to perform the task.
- the term ‘processor’ refers to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores configured to process data, such as computer program instructions.
- a data countermeasures platform is provided, which may include one or more of the components and features described herein.
- FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls.
- an indication is received that third party code included on a first party publisher's web page is attempting to write to the web page content associated with an unauthorized third party call ( 102 ).
- third party JavaScript or other code included with authorization on the publisher's web page may attempt to write to the web page as rendered by a client system's browser an element that would cause a call, such as an HTTP or other request, to be made out to an unauthorized third party, resulting in unauthorized transfer of user or other data to the unauthorized third party.
- the unauthorized third party call is blocked ( 104 ).
- the call is blocked by modifying the content to be written to the web page in a manner that results in the client browser not making the unauthorized third party call.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system to block unauthorized third party calls.
- web users 202 use the Internet 204 to access web pages 206 from a publisher or other web server 208 .
- an unauthorized third party 210 attempts to gather user data from and about web users 202 who view the publisher 208 ′s web pages 206 , e.g., to populate a user data database 212 .
- the unauthorized third party may desire to sell to entities other than publisher 208 information about the online behavior of web users 202 who have viewed publisher 208 's web pages 206 .
- the publisher 208 uses a service provided via a data countermeasures server 214 and a configuration data store 216 to block unauthorized calls from its web pages.
- a body of JavaScript and/or other code is provided that, when included on the web page by the online publisher, examines requests as they come in from third parties. If the publisher has disallowed requests from that particular party, for example, as indicated by data included in the configuration files 216 , the request is blocked.
- the JavaScript and/or other code comprises a “control tag” or other code that is provided to the publisher to be embedded by the publisher in the publisher's web pages.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a web page in which a control tag has been embedded to block unauthorized third party calls.
- a publisher of web page 302 has embedded a control tag 304 in the web page.
- control tag overrides thenative behavior of document.write, JavaScript's built in method for writing html to the page.
- the control tag buffers the content being passed to it.
- the content is processed with an html processor, with a callback function called whenever an opening html tag is called.
- This callback function is called with a list of the attributes in the opening tag.
- the attributes of incoming tags are inspected, and compared against the allowed tags/attributes as specified by the publisher. If a disallowed third party call is found, the html is removed and/or modified so that the browser does not execute it.
- control tag will parse the html passed to document.write, resulting in:
- the “src” (source) attribute will be checked against the publisher's blacklisted domains. If the content is to be blocked, it will be modified so that the browser does not execute it, such as:
- control tag in some embodiments also overrides other native elements that may be used to create html on the page in the same manner, such as Image and document.createElement.
- publishers are provided a way, e.g., a web-based administrative interface, to select companies that are to be blocked, based in some embodiments on proprietary or other databases of online third parties mapped to urls/domain names.
- a data counter measures service provider builds and maintains a database of third party companies that show up via HTTP requests on publisher pages. The database is keyed off of the domain portion of the URL.
- third party companies are categorized by their industry niche (or based on other attributes or criteria), so that publishers understand what type of company they are, e.g., market research, ad serving, etc.
- the publisher can choose which companies and/or classes of company to disallow, and the lists of these companies and domain patterns are delivered to the web page via a control tag or other mechanism, as described more fully herein.
- a control tag embedded in a publisher's web page to retrieve and/or update configuration at runtime allows for new third party companies, domains, etc. to be blocked within minutes.
- FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to configure a publisher's web pages to cause unauthorized third party calls to be blocked.
- a list of third parties and/or classes of third parties that a particular publisher desires to block is received ( 402 ), for example via a web-based or other administrative interface.
- Control tag code is provided to the publisher ( 404 ), who embeds the control tag in web pages desired to be protected.
- the control tag in various embodiments includes code to retrieve and/or update a list of blocked third parties, e.g., at runtime when a client browser executes code comprising the control tag.
- a control tag-generated request for configuration file data for the publisher is received ( 406 ), and configuration file data is sent in response to the control tag-generated request ( 408 ).
- unwanted requests are blocked by taking control of how a web browser writes content to the page (via Javascript's document.write in some embodiments) and changing its behavior so that incoming content can be inspected before it is executed.
- the native behavior of one or more of JavaScript's document.createElement, Image tag, and other functions that allow for unauthorized HTTP transactions to be performed are overwritten to intercept, detect, and block unauthorized third party calls.
- FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls.
- the process of FIG. 5 is implemented by a control tag and/or associated code.
- a JavaScript or other script runtime's document and/or other content writing function(s) is/are overwritten ( 502 ), e.g., to enable the writing of content that may otherwise result in an unauthorized call (e.g., an HTTP or other request) to be detected and blocked.
- a configuration file and/or other source of a list of blocked third parties is retrieved and processed ( 504 ).
- the tag is parsed to extract attributes ( 508 ), e.g., the “src” or other content source attribute. If a relevant attribute is associated with a third party on the publisher's list of third parties to block ( 510 ), actions are performed to block the call from being made to the third party ( 512 ), such as by modifying data comprising the tag to cause the browser not to make the unauthorized third party call. Processing of the web page continues in this way until no other tags remain to be processed ( 514 ).
- attributes e.g., the “src” or other content source attribute.
- an optional reporting component is made available. Every time a request is blocked, a reporting call is sent back to a data counter measures service provider or other reporting destination, so that data can be gathered, aggregated, summarized and displayed to the publisher, so they may know how many requests where blocked.
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- This CONTINUATION U.S. Patent Application is related to, and claims priority to the continuation U.S. Patent Application entitled “DATA COUNTER MEASURES,” filed Sep. 1, 2015, having an application number of Ser. No. 14/842,135 and attorney docket No. 37633.6311C (A2094USC1); and is further related to and claims priority to, the non-provisional U.S. Utility Patent Application entitled “DATA COUNTER MEASURES,” filed May 21, 2012, having an application number of Ser. No. 13/476,439 and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,160,745, and attorney docket No. 37633.6311 (A2094); and is further related to, and claims priority to, the U.S. Provisional Patent Application entitled “DATA COUNTER MEASURES,” filed May 19, 2011, having an application number of 61/487,866, the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
- Embodiments of the invention relate generally to the field of computing, and more particularly, to methods and systems for implementing data counter measures for online publishers with third party content.
- The subject matter discussed in the background section should not be assumed to be prior art merely as a result of its mention in the background section. Similarly, a problem mentioned in the background section or associated with the subject matter of the background section should not be assumed to have been previously recognized in the prior art. The subject matter in the background section merely represents different approaches, which in and of themselves may also correspond to embodiments of the claimed inventions.
- Online publishers often include third party content on their web pages. These third parties provide services that include, but are not limited to: analytics, advertising, widgets that add functionality for end users, and behavioral tracking. These third party services typically are provided at least in part by embedding onto a first party publisher's web pages a snippet of third party HTML and JavaScript code.
- This HTML and JavaScript code, once executed, performs the functionality that the publisher originally intended, but may also bring in requests, such as data collection requests, that were not authorized by the publisher, such as requests by and/or on behalf of unwanted third parties. These data collection requests can be in the form of images (most common), scripts, or iframes—theoretically any tag that creates an HTTP transaction. As an example, and without limitation, a first party publisher's web page (for example, an Autos site that is used by consumers to compare car prices) may include the follow HTML code from an authorized third party, in this case one associated with the fictional domain “3rdparty.com”:
- <script src=“http://3rdparty.com/writePixel.js”></script>
- However, writePixel.js in the above example may contain something like the following:
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- document.write(‘<img src=“http://blacklisted.com/?make=bmw&model=5-series&price=50000-70000”/>’);
- In the above example, an authorized third party (“3rdparty”) has included on the publisher's page a tag that results in a call not authorized by the publisher being made out to a site associated with an unauthorized third party (“blacklisted”), which in this example results in user data being passed to the unauthorized third party, for example cookie data stored on the user's computer. Using the data that is passed along with the unauthorized call, the third party (“blacklisted.com”) is now able to track that user as one being in-market for high-end luxury cars.
- These unwanted requests may have unwanted affects, such as:
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- Devaluing the publishers online advertising inventory by making their audience's data available to channels not controlled by the publisher, ultimately decreasing revenue for the publisher.
- Increasing web page load time for end users with additional HTTP traffic. In addition to creating a poorer experience for end users, this leads to lower revenue for the publisher when end-users abandon sites or visit fewer pages because the web pages are slow.
- Compromising the privacy of the users by having their data shared with unauthorized companies. With an evolving privacy regime, unwarranted distribution of user's data is a big concern for Publishers.
- Embodiments are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, and can be more fully understood with reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the figures in which:
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FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls. -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system to block unauthorized third party calls. -
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a web page in which a control tag has been embedded to block unauthorized third party calls. -
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to configure a publisher's web pages to cause unauthorized third party calls to be blocked. -
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls. - The invention can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a process; an apparatus; a system; a composition of matter; a computer program product embodied on a computer readable storage medium; and/or a processor, such as a processor configured to execute instructions stored on and/or provided by a memory coupled to the processor. In this specification, these implementations, or any other form that the invention may take, may be referred to as techniques. In general, the order of the steps of disclosed processes may be altered within the scope of the invention. Unless stated otherwise, a component such as a processor or a memory described as being configured to perform a task may be implemented as a general component that is temporarily configured to perform the task at a given time or a specific component that is manufactured to perform the task. As used herein, the term ‘processor’ refers to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores configured to process data, such as computer program instructions.
- A detailed description of one or more embodiments of the invention is provided below along with accompanying figures that illustrate the principles of the invention. The invention is described in connection with such embodiments, but the invention is not limited to any embodiment. The scope of the invention is limited only by the claims and the invention encompasses numerous alternatives, modifications and equivalents. Numerous specific details are set forth in the following description in order to provide a thorough understanding of the invention. These details are provided for the purpose of example and the invention may be practiced according to the claims without some or all of these specific details. For the purpose of clarity, technical material that is known in the technical fields related to the invention has not been described in detail so that the invention is not unnecessarily obscured.
- Techniques to block unauthorized third party requests associated with code associated with a first party publisher's web page are disclosed. In various embodiments, a data countermeasures platform is provided, which may include one or more of the components and features described herein.
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FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls. In the example shown, an indication is received that third party code included on a first party publisher's web page is attempting to write to the web page content associated with an unauthorized third party call (102). For example, third party JavaScript or other code included with authorization on the publisher's web page may attempt to write to the web page as rendered by a client system's browser an element that would cause a call, such as an HTTP or other request, to be made out to an unauthorized third party, resulting in unauthorized transfer of user or other data to the unauthorized third party. In the example shown, the unauthorized third party call is blocked (104). In some embodiments, the call is blocked by modifying the content to be written to the web page in a manner that results in the client browser not making the unauthorized third party call. -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system to block unauthorized third party calls. In the example shown,web users 202 use the Internet 204 to accessweb pages 206 from a publisher orother web server 208. In the example shown, an unauthorizedthird party 210 attempts to gather user data from and aboutweb users 202 who view thepublisher 208′sweb pages 206, e.g., to populate auser data database 212. For example, the unauthorized third party may desire to sell to entities other thanpublisher 208 information about the online behavior ofweb users 202 who have viewedpublisher 208'sweb pages 206. In the example shown, thepublisher 208 uses a service provided via adata countermeasures server 214 and aconfiguration data store 216 to block unauthorized calls from its web pages. - In various embodiments, a body of JavaScript and/or other code is provided that, when included on the web page by the online publisher, examines requests as they come in from third parties. If the publisher has disallowed requests from that particular party, for example, as indicated by data included in the
configuration files 216, the request is blocked. In some embodiments, the JavaScript and/or other code comprises a “control tag” or other code that is provided to the publisher to be embedded by the publisher in the publisher's web pages. -
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a web page in which a control tag has been embedded to block unauthorized third party calls. In the example shown, a publisher ofweb page 302 has embedded acontrol tag 304 in the web page. - In some embodiments, the control tag overrides thenative behavior of document.write, JavaScript's built in method for writing html to the page. By intercepting calls to this function, the control tag buffers the content being passed to it. The content is processed with an html processor, with a callback function called whenever an opening html tag is called. This callback function is called with a list of the attributes in the opening tag. The attributes of incoming tags are inspected, and compared against the allowed tags/attributes as specified by the publisher. If a disallowed third party call is found, the html is removed and/or modified so that the browser does not execute it.
- For example, if the 3rd party calls:
- document.write(“<img src=”′+‘http://www.bl’+‘ocked.com/pixel.gif’>”)
- The control tag will parse the html passed to document.write, resulting in:
- <img src=‘http://www.blocked.com/pixel.gif’>
- Before writing it to the page, the “src” (source) attribute will be checked against the publisher's blacklisted domains. If the content is to be blocked, it will be modified so that the browser does not execute it, such as:
- <img blockedsrc=‘http://www.blocked.com/pixel.gir>
- The control tag in some embodiments also overrides other native elements that may be used to create html on the page in the same manner, such as Image and document.createElement.
- In various embodiments, publishers are provided a way, e.g., a web-based administrative interface, to select companies that are to be blocked, based in some embodiments on proprietary or other databases of online third parties mapped to urls/domain names. In some embodiments, a data counter measures service provider builds and maintains a database of third party companies that show up via HTTP requests on publisher pages. The database is keyed off of the domain portion of the URL. In various embodiments one or both of human and automated processes as used to populate the database. In some embodiments, third party companies are categorized by their industry niche (or based on other attributes or criteria), so that publishers understand what type of company they are, e.g., market research, ad serving, etc. Via an administrative console or other interface, the publisher can choose which companies and/or classes of company to disallow, and the lists of these companies and domain patterns are delivered to the web page via a control tag or other mechanism, as described more fully herein. In some embodiments, use of a control tag embedded in a publisher's web page to retrieve and/or update configuration at runtime allows for new third party companies, domains, etc. to be blocked within minutes.
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FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to configure a publisher's web pages to cause unauthorized third party calls to be blocked. In the example shown, a list of third parties and/or classes of third parties that a particular publisher desires to block is received (402), for example via a web-based or other administrative interface. Control tag code is provided to the publisher (404), who embeds the control tag in web pages desired to be protected. The control tag in various embodiments includes code to retrieve and/or update a list of blocked third parties, e.g., at runtime when a client browser executes code comprising the control tag. A control tag-generated request for configuration file data for the publisher is received (406), and configuration file data is sent in response to the control tag-generated request (408). - In various embodiments, unwanted requests are blocked by taking control of how a web browser writes content to the page (via Javascript's document.write in some embodiments) and changing its behavior so that incoming content can be inspected before it is executed. In various embodiments, the native behavior of one or more of JavaScript's document.createElement, Image tag, and other functions that allow for unauthorized HTTP transactions to be performed are overwritten to intercept, detect, and block unauthorized third party calls. By processing HTML as it is being written to a web page, and using a hook mechanism to call out to a data counter measures module or other entity every time a new tag is written to the page, tags can be inspected for validity before they are written.
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FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process to block unauthorized third party calls. In some embodiments, the process ofFIG. 5 is implemented by a control tag and/or associated code. In the example shown, a JavaScript or other script runtime's document and/or other content writing function(s) is/are overwritten (502), e.g., to enable the writing of content that may otherwise result in an unauthorized call (e.g., an HTTP or other request) to be detected and blocked. A configuration file and/or other source of a list of blocked third parties is retrieved and processed (504). As the page is processed, upon encountering an open tag (506) the tag is parsed to extract attributes (508), e.g., the “src” or other content source attribute. If a relevant attribute is associated with a third party on the publisher's list of third parties to block (510), actions are performed to block the call from being made to the third party (512), such as by modifying data comprising the tag to cause the browser not to make the unauthorized third party call. Processing of the web page continues in this way until no other tags remain to be processed (514). - In some embodiments, an optional reporting component is made available. Every time a request is blocked, a reporting call is sent back to a data counter measures service provider or other reporting destination, so that data can be gathered, aggregated, summarized and displayed to the publisher, so they may know how many requests where blocked.
- Techniques to intercept and block HTTP requests, e.g., by checking content before it is written to the page, have been disclosed. An alternative approach would be to remove the unwanted content from the web page after it has been downloaded, but by this time the HTTP request has already been sent to the unwanted party, passing along the end-users cookie information, which may be part of what the publisher wanted to block.
- Although the foregoing embodiments have been described in some detail for purposes of clarity of understanding, the invention is not limited to the details provided. There are many alternative ways of implementing the invention. The disclosed embodiments are illustrative and not restrictive.
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